Windows Vista October CTP

Another month, another CTP release.

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Microsoft has released build 5231 of Windows Vista as this month's Community Technology Preview. It's up on Microsoft Connect for beta testers, and MSDN for subscribers. There's still no sidebar, but I wouldn't expect to see it until at least Beta 2, because they probably want to keep the wraps on it.

The major change in this release comes in the form of Internet Explorer improvements. IE has had its tabbed interface reworked, including a kind of "Expose" overview of open tabs. Windows Media Player also has a new UI, and it clearly heading into Version 11 territory.

And of you playing with this release? The September CTP gave me too many driver headaches, so I think I may sit this month out and wait and see what develops on the NVIDIA LDDM front over the next month or so.

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Ken Fisher
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